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Quotes 161 till 180 of 532.

  • Bruce Coville I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Mary Corelli I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
    Mary Corelli
    British writer (1855 - 1924)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Dorothy Parker I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Eddie Murphy I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alan Bennett I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Arthur Rock I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Charles Dickens I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • John Barrymore I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • William Shakespeare I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bryan Adams I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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